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Two-Letter Interjections [PDF]

, 1985
It is a curious fact that a substantial percentage of two-letter words are interjections; of the 227 words in the Dictionary of Two-Letter Words issued by the Biliteral Society and reviewed below, grouping interjections according to feelings, commands ...
Pollack, Philip L.
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Contesting Nationalism: Global Citizenship and Chinese Identity in Hong Kong

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global citizenship highlights that one's identity transcends national borders, whereas nationalism prioritises individuals' identification with a specific nation‐state. In the context of nation‐building, tension could arise between global citizenship and national identity.
Shen Yang
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Acrostic Dictionary of Wordplay Terms [PDF]

, 2010
A bunch of definitive reverse acrostics presented in February (\u2710-8) included seven wordplay terms, with especially fun ones for logology and logophile.
Anil, A.
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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Between Cratylism and positivism: the old poem and what Alice found there [PDF]

Sintagma, 2004
In this paper I shall refer summarily to nineteenth century philology in an attempt to relate it with the wordplay found in the works of Lewis Carroll in order to establish a correct range of (dis)continuities.
Amadeu Viana
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Kickshaws [PDF]

, 2010
A collection of linguistic ...
Morice, Dave
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Wordplay or Swordplay? [PDF]

, 1973
This partial list of words that Inspector Lestrade brought around this morning from Boothwyn looks like pure gibberish to me, Holmes. It contains many words I\u27ve never heard of, there\u27s no order to it, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it.

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Why Are All the Sets All the Sets?

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Necessitists about set theory think that the pure sets exists, and are the way they are, as a matter of necessity. They cannot explain why the sets (de rebus) are all the sets. This constitutes the Ur‐Objection against necessitism; it is the primary motivation cited by potentialists about set theory.
Tim Button
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The intralingual subtitling of interdialectal wordplay in the Arabic-speaking world

The European Journal of Humour Research
The present study aims to contribute to the research field of the intralingual subtitling of dialects. It attempts to bring to the fore the unique way in which humorous interdialectal communication, in the ST, notably wordplay, is rendered into one ...
Hajar Ben Bouazza, Hicham Boughaba
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ALTERATIONS IN THE WORLDVIEW AND THE DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PRACTICE

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2015
The article puts forth argumentation that fully conforms with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis on linguistic relativity according to which the structure of a language reflects not only peculiar features of some culture but also determines the general worldview
Shakhovskiy Viktor Ivanovich
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